Weight Watchers success story Jennifer Hudson is writing a memoir about her miraculous weight loss. Over the past few years, Jennifer’s gone from a size 16 to a size 6, losing 80 pounds since the birth of her son David Jr. in 2009, now she wants to tell us how she did it.

The still-untitled tome from the Oscar winner, 29, will be a memoir chronicling the unhealthy eating habits she developed during her childhood through her mission to shed the pounds and adopt a healthier way of life.

Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), will publish the book, which is due for release in Jan. 2012.

“Hudson wants to inspire anyone coping with weight issues, share some of her own best tips for losing and maintaining weight loss, fitting in exercise and keeping it fun…” publishers said in a statement Tuesday.

Jennifer’s book news comes on the heels of whispers that the former “DreamGirl” was having troubled selling the manuscript to publishers because it did not include any of the sordid details surrounding the triple homicide of her mother, brother, and nephew in Chicago three years ago.

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The last time R. Kelly got overexposed, he ended up on trial for lewd acts with a minor — of course, that won’t stop Uncle Chester from spilling all of the secrets trapped away in a dark corner of his closet on the pages of a new tell-all memoir.

Kellz is ready to expose his innermost thoughts about the teen sex scandal, divorce, and beef that have plagued his multiplatinum-selling career on the pages of an upcoming memoir, titled Soulacoaster.

“I’m writing this book as Robert, not R. Kelly,” he said. “I’m tired of being misunderstood. I will show you the tears, fears, and sweat. I will open my heart and reveal the good in my life as well as all the drama. I want to tell it like it is.”

Soulacoaster is expected to hit booksellers’ shelves in 2012.

Will you look at what the cat drug in? Karrine “Superhead” Steffans — the alleged “battered woman” (Insert eye-rolling here…) known for spilling the tea on her various sexcapades with celebrities — has another book in the pipeline.

This time, the outspoken One-Night Stand from Hell is looking to help other folks spice things up in the bedroom.

Satisfaction, due out Aug. 10, is billed as a guide for “adventurous couples” looking to shake up their sex lives. Steffans describes her fourth literary effort as a work of “faction” — a tome of erotic fantasies that provides guidance on how to make the stories a reality.

Steffans, a former hip-hop music video model, became a bestselling author when her tell-all memoir, Confessions of a Video Vixen, hit shelves in 2005.

Steve Harvey, comedian-turned-wise-cracking relationship guru, is offering some “straight talk” on the “myth” that men and women can happily engage in platonic relationships.

The nationally-syndicated radio host solidified his standing as the 21st century’s answer to Dr. Ruth after his first book, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, shot to the top of The New York Times Bestsellers List in 2009.

In an interview with CNN’s Fredericka Whitfield, Harvey — who is promoting his newest relationship manual, Straight Talk, No Chaser – breaks down why members of the opposite sex can never be “just friends.”

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From nude sex scandals and pageant shame to cheating spouses, the nation’s first African-American Miss America has enjoyed a career with enough highs and lows to fill several tell-alls.

But Vanessa Williams, now one of television’s Desperate Housewives, says she turned down a $600,000 deal from an unnamed publisher to spill the secrets of her marriage to Rick Fox and early days as a model on the pages of a memoir.

“I don’t want to rehash the past …. I want to talk about what makes me, and why I’m a survivor. And the publishers DIDN’T want that. They wanted to know about my ex-husbands. But I’m NOT going to throw my kids’ dads under the bus,” the mother-of-four reveals on the pages of the Jan. issues of Ebony.

Jay-Z can now add the illustrious title of New York Times Bestselling Author to his arsenal of Grammys and platinum plaques.

His newly-released memoir Decoded debuted at No. 3 on the pretigious institution’s coveted Bestsellers List this week, right under George W. Bush’s Decision Points and Lauren Hillenbrand’s Unbroken.

Critics credit Hov’s partnership with Microsoft search engine Bing.com for the fanatical success of his book. In the weeks leading up to the book’s release, the web brand hosted a scavenger hunt, giving fans the chance to find clues from the book, which encrypted on hidden pages tucked away all around the world.

Decoded is now available in stores.

Rapper/actor Common is bringing his life story to the book aisle. On Wednesday, publishers at Atria Book inked a deal to release a memoir penned by the star, 38, The Associated Press has learned.

The book, titled One Day It’ll Make Sense, will be co-written by Adam Bradley and chronicles the Chicago-bred lyricist’s tough childhood on the city’s hardscrabble South Side and his rise in the entertainment world, including the Grammy-winning collaboration with Kanye West and appearances in films like American Gangster and Street Kings.

In July, Common became the first person cast in the upcoming AMC TV’s historical drama Hell on Wheels.

One Day It’ll Make Sense is set to arrive on booksellers’ shelves in June.

Fabolous isn’t the only hip-hopster eyeing a book deal. ?uestlove, of The Roots fame, has inked a book deal with Grand Central Publishing for a tome that will combine his always entertaining stories of celebrity encounters, music fact, and his quirky anedotes on life into a compelling read.

The book — titled Mommy, What’s A ?uestlove? — is tenatively set for publication in 2011.

How would like to read gems like this one — and numerous others — from the man who made “Stupid Boy Swagg” Soulja Boy’s new moniker? Would you read a Trending Topic Book from @myfabolouslife? It could be closer than you think. Fabolous says the Tweepies at Twitter.com has contacted him about memoralizing his zingy one-liners in the form of a coffee table book.

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